Ravyn Three levels underground, Ravyn felt the moment when the witch barriers activated above them. The sensation was unlike anything she’d experienced—ancient power flowing through the facility’s structure like water finding its course, settling into protective patterns that had been perfected over centuries of persecution. The babies’ network suddenly expanded beyond the confines of the underground bunker, connecting not just to Hope and the other developing children, but to hundreds of magical practitioners whose consciousness resonated with harmonies older than recorded history. Through her father’s presence among them, she could feel the covens spreading throughout the forest above, their combined will focused on a single purpose: protection of the innocent. “They made it,” she bre

